30 JANUARY 1982, page 22

Nail Clippings

Ronald Hingley T his book contains the edited text of lec- tures on Russian literature delivered by Vladimir Nabokov at Cornell and other American universities in the 1940s and......

Crime

Harriet Waugh The Fury of Rachel Monette Pe ter Abrahams (Frederick Muller £7.50) T he landscape in which a political thriller is set is of the utmost importance to tile success......